Active Monitoring of Persons Exposed to Patients with Confirmed COVID-19 --- United States, January--February 2020

Published on March 5, 2020

CDC and public health authorities have learned more about coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) through active contact tracing and monitoring of people who have been exposed to the virus that causes COVID-19.

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